1 outlets · filed 25 October 2026
French far-right leader Le Pen seeks to leverage unrest in presidential campaign kick-off
Marine Le Pen, leader of France’s far-right National Rally, addressed some 10,000 supporters on Sunday in the city of Orleans as she kicked off her presidential campaign, a day after nationwide cost-of-living protests flared again into violence.
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Both outlets frame the story around Marine Le Pen’s campaign launch in Orléans and her attempt to make political use of a troubled moment in France. France 24 repeatedly foregrounds the setting, the National Rally congress, and the size of the crowd, while the South China Morning Post centers Le Pen’s pledge to “restore the rule of law” and notes only in its extract that she seems to be benefiting from France’s “convulsions.”
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